Hi all,
Recently I have been working on some improvements to restconfig that I would
like to run by everyone. The changes have to do with the operations that
allow the uploading of a shapefile.
Currently you only really have one option. You upload a shapefile (or
reference it externally) and a datastore (and feature type) gets created for
that shapefile. Cool, but I think it would be cool to have some flexibility
here. Mainly to be able to specify a different datastore than shapefile. For
instance maybe you want that shapefile to be stored in an existing postgis
database. Or maybe you want a different type of datastore to be
automatically created (thinking H2 here mostly).
So currently the api looks mostly like this:
PUT [zipped shapefile] /rest/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/<ds>/file.shp
Well nothing really has to change. If you want to use an existing data store
you just put to that datastore. For instance:
PUT [zipped shapefile] /rest/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/foo_pg/file.shp
Would under the covers take the shapefile and create a feature type / table
for it (via DataStore.createSchema()). Then copy the contents of the
shapefile into that new type.
I was also thinking of doing things like this:
PUT [zipped shapefile]
/rest/workspaces/<ws>/datastores/foo_h2/file.shp?target=h2
In this case the datastore does not exist, but the user specified the type
of datastore they want to create via the "target" parameter. In this an H2
database and datastore would be created automatically, and the new type
added to it. Now obviously this could not be supported for all types of
datastores. For instance we can't really magically create a new postgis
datastore. But for many like h2, and other file based datastores it should
be possible.
So... what do you all think? The existing behaviour would be completely
maintained. These would really just be additions.
-Justin
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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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